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is beautiful. pps\". If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY > CIRCUMSTANCES, and delete it immediately. If you open this file, a message > will appear on your screen saying: \"It is too late now, your life is no > longer beautiful\", subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and > the person who sent it to you gains access to your name, e-mail and > password. > > > This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. WE > > NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO STOP THIS VIRUS. AOL has already > confirmed the severity, and the antiviral Software's are n"> is beautiful. pps\". If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY > CIRCUMSTANCES, and delete it immediately. If you open this file, a message > will appear on your screen saying: \"It is too late now, your life is no > longer beautiful\", subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and > the person who sent it to you gains access to your name, e-mail and > password. > > > This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. WE > > NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO STOP THIS VIRUS. AOL has already > confirmed the severity, and the antiviral Software's are n" /> virus warning

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judyofthewoods

Joined: 29 Jan 2005
Posts: 804
Location: Pembrokeshire

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 05 7:28 pm Post subject: virus warning

An email I just received warning about new virus:

VERY IMPORTANT WARNING
>
> Please Be Extremely Careful especially if using internet mail such as
>
> Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on. This information arrived this morning
>
> from Microsoft and Norton.
>
>
> Please send it to everybody you know who accesses the Internet. You may
> receive an apparently harmless email with a Power Point presentation "Life
> is beautiful. pps". If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY
> CIRCUMSTANCES, and delete it immediately. If you open this file, a message
> will appear on your screen saying: "It is too late now, your life is no
> longer beautiful", subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and
> the person who sent it to you gains access to your name, e-mail and
> password.
>
>
> This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. WE
>
> NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO STOP THIS VIRUS. AOL has already
> confirmed the severity, and the antiviral Software's are not capable of
> destroying it. The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself
> "life owner".

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28111
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 05 7:32 pm Post subject:
May be true may be not. In fact reading the text I very strongly expect this is a chain email phony warning, designed simply to propagate the warning. Have said that, a .pps file is a potentially dangerous file type. A malformed file could concievably launch a virus. So personally I would never open such a file, unless I knew who had created it and why.

judyofthewoods

Joined: 29 Jan 2005
Posts: 804
Location: Pembrokeshire

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 05 7:39 pm Post subject:
Not had any emails as discribed, but a lot of phish emails claiming to be from ebay and paypal in the last few days. I went into my ebay account via the normal route (not clicking on shortcut in email) and there was nothing wrong with my account.

mrutty

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1578

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 05 11:27 pm Post subject:
Really old hoax, but good to see it back

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